Department of Commerce

This report addresses the status of the Census Bureau’s (the Bureau’s) 2020 decennial program preparation and planning efforts. The Bureau maintains all known living quarters in the Master Address File (MAF). Each address in the MAF is linked to a geographic location in the Topologically Integrated...

This report provides the results of our review of a complaint received in January 2015 from a confidential complainant regarding the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS, or NOAA Fisheries) Alaska Regional Office’s use of grants and...

This is our final report on the audit of the 2015 Census Test conducted in portions of Maricopa County, Arizona. Our audit had two objectives: to assess (1) whether the Bureau’s reengineered and automated operational control system for managing fieldwork functioned as expected, and (2) the Bureau’s...

Attached is our final report on USPTO’s contracts that were awarded using other than full and open competitive (“noncompetitive”) procedures. Our objective was to determine whether these noncompetitive contract awards were properly justified.

This report provides the results of our most recent audit to evaluate the First Responder Network Authority’s (FirstNet’s) process for managing interagency agreements (IAAs), including entering into, monitoring, and closing IAAs.

We conducted this audit to examine BIS’ progress in transitioning to USXPORTS. We began this audit with two objectives: to determine whether BIS was (1) effectively and efficiently managing its transition toward using USXPORTS to perform export licensing processing and (2) using effective and...

This report details the results of our review of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) sole-source contract award to Industrial Economics, Incorporated. On April 20, 2010, an explosion on the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon oil well drilling platform released...

This is our audit of the effectiveness of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) controls over information technology equipment issued to employees participating in the Patents Hoteling Program (PHP). The objective of our audit was to assess the effectiveness of USPTO’s controls over PHP...

The Cybersecurity Act of 2015 (the Act) requires that each office of inspector general (OIG) submit a report to Congress on the national security systems and systems that provide access to personally identifiable information (PII) operated by or on behalf of its department. The objective of this...

This is our final report on OIG’s audit of CS China operations. We conducted this audit as part of our FY 2015 audit plan. Our audit objectives were to (1) assess the roles and responsibilities of Commerce staff components in China and the adequacy of cost-sharing agreements; (2) assess the adequacy...